OpenAI and Microsoft are defending lawsuits from publishers, authors, and other creators alleging they ripped off their work. They can reshape the generative AI industry.Jack Guez/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BILawyers for The New York Times are poring through ChatGPT's source code and training material.Copyright cases from publishers and authors are trying to figure out how AI trains on creative work.The lawsuits could chart a path forward, much as Napster's legal morass did two decades ago.Somewhere in the United States, in a secure room, on a computer unconnected to the internet, sits the source code for ChatGPT.It is there to be inspected by lawyers for The New York Times.By the order of a federal judge, the lawyers can only get into the room if they show a government-issued ID to a security guard.